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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haunted House. The most outspoken of the malcontents was Ed Stanky, who made no secret of what he thought about Southworth's managing. Stanky's roommate, Alvin Dark, said "Me, too." By August, Southworth was like a man in a haunted house, shying at every whisper, He was...
Wall Street's young bull market kept right on growing. On three successive days last week, trading topped 2,000,000 shares, making it the most active week since the big rise of May 1948. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.37 points to 198.05, the highest since August...
The "Kingfish" is big (6 ft., 200 lbs.), shy, pink-cheeked Ernest Lynn Kurth, 64, a jack of all trades-lumber, insurance, banking, theaters, construction, utilities, machinery-and master of all as well. Kurth's dozen-odd enterprises employ 3,250, indirectly support 50% of Lufkin's population...
When the Cunard Lines' 45,600-ton Aquitania steamed majestically into New York Harbor on her maiden voyage in June 1914, admiring New Yorkers called her "the most beautiful ship in the world." Built at a cost of more than $10 million, the four-stacked* Aquitania, with her nine...
Last week the London-Tangier diamond trade, which had enabled U.S. dealers to get gems for one-sixth under their London price, received a mortal blow. In London's Clerkenwell Court, I. Hennig & Co., Ltd., one of Britain's most respected diamond merchants, was convicted of customs evasion...